A B-52 Almost Crashed Into a Delta Flight, and We Only Know About It Because Someone Posted It on TikTok
Isn’t someone supposed to be regulating this stuff?
Published 4 months ago in Wtf
Over the weekend, a video went viral of yet another near-miss in the aviation world. This time around, it was a B-52 bomber nearly crashing into a Delta flight. And we know that this happened because someone posted about it on TikTok.
According to CNN, a Delta Connection pilot on SkyWest Flight 3788 had to abruptly turn to avoid a midair collision with a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber, leading to an apology from the pilot that made its way to TikTok.
“I don’t know how fast they were going, but they were a lot faster than us,” the pilot said. “I thought that was the safest thing to do was turn behind it.”
Thank goodness for the pilot’s quick thinking, but at the same time, I really hope our systems of air travel have more fail-safes in place than “a pilot will hopefully notice if he’s about to get hit by a bomber.”
A military B-52 bomber jet almost crashed into Delta flight 3788 yesterday, July 18.
— Jackie Singh (@HackingButLegal) July 20, 2025
Pilot sounded shaken after making a sudden evasive maneuver to avoid collision.
Will the media cover this latest evidence of Pete Hegseth‘s dangerous incompetence?
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